One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.