Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

I always love messing with my own hair as much as I can; I don't normally like to wear wigs.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.