A Lot Of Acting Is Private Time.

Chekhov Was As Important To Me As Anybody As A Writer.

My Dad Was In The Army. World War Ii. He Got His College Education From The Army. After World War Ii He Became An Insurance Salesman. Really, I Didn't Know My Dad Very Well. He And My Mother Split Up After The War. I Was Raised By My Maternal Grandmother And Grandfather, And By My Mother.

Francis Ford Coppola Did This Early On. You Tape A Movie, Like A Radio Show, And You Have The Narrator Read All The Stage Directions. And Then You Go Back Like A Few Days Later And Then You Listen To The Movie. And It Sort Of Plays In Your Mind Like A Film, Like A First Rough Cut Of A Movie.

The Reasons You Have For Doing A Movie Will Vary With The Way Your Life Is Going. There Was A Time When A Made A Some Movies Because I Felt I Needed To Work. And I Didn't Think About The Material As Much. But Sometimes I've Thought About The Material A Lot And Thought I Was Doing The Right Thing, And It Didn't Work Out.

I’ve Always Been In The Theater. I’ve Always Gone To It. That’s Been My Way To Cope. Early On In My Career, I Remember Running - Fleeing - To The Theater As A Way Of Coping With All The Meshugaas That Was Going On For Me.