I Was Just A Quiet Kid, Really.

I Like Complicated Characters.

Jack Nicholson Is Fairly Gifted. We Were At The Sistine Chapel, And Everybody Went From Looking Straight Up To Looking Across The Room At Him.

When I Was A Kid, I Was Obsessed With This Idea Of Opening A Restaurant Back In Indiana On A Little Pond. The Guests Would Order Their Dinner And Then Take A Little Boat Out With A Colored Flag On The Front Of It. When The Matching Color Of The Flag On Their Boat Went Up On A Flag Pole, Their Dinner Was Ready!

When You Have A Director Who Has Work You Can Identify From The Past, It Gives You Some Reference Point As To What Their Interpretation Of The Story Might Be, And How That Might Jibe, Right Or Wrong, With How You See It. But With A First-time Director, You Don't Really Know Where You're At.

I Went Door-to-door Selling Cable Television Subscriptions When I Was In College. Not To Date Myself, But Cable Was Just Coming On. I Had Terrible Territories, And They Would Give Me $25, If I Got Somebody To Let Them Come And Just Put The Little Cord In Their House.