Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college.