The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

I struggled with the idea that this character, the parent, would ... stop speaking to her daughter and not make more of an effort.

I struggled with the idea that this character, being the parent, would go so far as to stop speaking to her daughter and not make more of an effort. We had it in bits and pieces, but it was hard for me to justify – that I wouldn't try harder, that I wouldn't reach out more, that I could stand to be away from her for that long.

Everybody from the outside looking at (the Raiders) thought it was a bunch of loony bins over there. Obviously, when it came time to play, he had them very well focused on doing what they had to do. You have to have some talent to do that.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.