I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself.