Regret Is A Toxin That I Try

The Interesting Thing About Doing A Play Is To Find A Way To Make It Fresh And Do It As Though You Were Doing It For The First Time.

I've Lived Most Of My Life In Manhattan, But As Close As Brooklyn Is To Manhattan, There Are People Who Live There Who Have Been To Manhattan Maybe Once Or Twice.

Then In Came This Script With Another Very Low Offer, And Another Drug Addict And A Depressing And Difficult Part To Play. I Thought, 'why Should I Put Myself Through That For Hardly Any Money?'

It's Been Awhile. My Oscar Is Getting Kind Of Tarnished. I Looked At It A Couple Of Years Ago And Thought I Really Needed A New One.

Bob Duvall Is A Great Actor Because Each Time Out, He Creates A Whole, Complete Character. You Have The Feeling That You're Not Seeing An Actor At All, But A Fully Realized Human Being. Think Of How He Was In The Godfather. If You Didn't Know Bobby, You'd Think That He Really Was Tom, The Consigliere. Then You See Him In Santini, And He's Completely Different. He's Not Only A Personality, He's A Consummate Actor.