Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.