I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.