Florida Is A Very Healing Place.

But Then When I'm In A Halfway Successful Movie, It Irritates The Hell Out Of The Critics In New York, Because They'd Like To Kill My Pictures If They Could. So Maybe I'm Pretty Good In The Movie. Then They Use All These Words Like I'm 'surprisingly' Good, Or 'shockingly Enough,' I'm Good. It's Like I Crawled Out From Under A Magazine And They're Surprised I Can Act.

Friends Come In Herds And They Leave In Herds. Hollywood Loves An Adventure, But You Have To Hit Bottom. Then They Love To Save You And Be A Part Of It. Or Think They're A Part Of It.

I Regret That I Do Not Have The Dignity Of Ricardo Montalban, The Class Of Dean Martin, Or The Humor Of Bill Cosby. I Do Have The Heart Of A Lion.

All You Really Have In The End Are Your Stories.

Smokey And The Bandit Was The First Picture [hal Needham ] Directed, And I Knew He Could Handle It. I Had Just Directed Gator, And He Saw My Style And Used That As A Pattern.