I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.