Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.