I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

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

The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.