They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!