I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'
I hate dieting. Let's just say that.
I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.
I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
I personally feel my equation with Varun Dhawan is on a different level. I share a great rapport with him. He is very charming, matured, and he knows what to say when.
I would say one of the most romantic things I've done is I've taken a girlfriend back to her hometown when she hadn't been back for years. It was in Puerto Rico, and we stayed there for about a week and a half. She showed me the different places she grew up around.
There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.
The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.
I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars.
If I had something to say about my lyrics, I would say they were about different subjects concerning the darkness and the night.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.
