I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
