The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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.

An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.

When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Ministry is simply about loving the person in front of you.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.