I Honestly If I Get A Vacation

If You Are Writing A Story And Trying To Draw An Audience To Come And Hear You Tell It, It's Got To In Some Way Relate To Them. Who Wants To Come And Hear About Your Specific Problems? It's Not Therapy - It's Supposed To Be A Communal Piece Of Entertainment.

Being Known As A Writer Did Change The Relationships I Had With Directors. The Rap On Actors Is That They Always Want To Inflate Their Parts. But When Directors Know You Write Screenplays And Have A Different View Of Things, You Really Get Invited Into The Huddle In A Much Fuller Way. And Those Collaborations End In Friendships.

If You're Just An Actor You're Reactive. You're Saying, "well, I Hope Hollywood Gives Me A Role, Or Gives Me A Chance At A Role," Whereas If You Can Generate Your Own Content, Then You Can Go Where You Want To Go.

We're Here For Such A Short Time. When Your Great-great-grandkids Study History, Don't You Want Them To Be Proud That You Were Part Of The Solution?

The Better The Actor, The Less You Know About His Life. I Mean, Nobody's Better Than De Niro And You Don't Know Anything About Him, Right?