"A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now."

"So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona."

"I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself."

"Tragedy makes you grow up."

"People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does."

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

"Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas."