Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.