I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.
With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.
I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.
I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I've always done that. I think either it's some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever's bothering me.
It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
I don't throw things or yell.
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.
Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
Well, I like to have fun at work.
All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details of their life, as you perceive them, to life. You attempt to do to that as fully and as vibrantly as you can. It's depressing to read how much you've failed. And it's not even particularly instructive or necessary to read how you succeeded because in the end don't you have to judge that?
