All I Am Is What

I Probably Write A Poem Every 50 Years.

Jamie Foxx Does A Good Rendition Of Me. It's A Real Gift, Mimicry Of That Kind, The Tonal Thing. It's Sort Of Like Having A Talent For Playing An Instrument.

I Never Saw Myself As A Director. It's Certainly A Second Language But Making Movies For 40 Years, You Pick Stuff Up. However, This Style Of Making Movies, This Documentary Style, Is Easier For Me Because I Gather A Lot Of Material And With An Editor, Write It On Screen. You Try To Write Based On What You Shot.

When I Was Younger, I Would Go To Auditions To Have The Opportunity To Audition, Which Would Mean Another Chance To Get Up There And Try Out My Stuff, Or Try Out What I Learned And See How It Worked With An Audience, Because Where Are You Gonna Get An Audience?

It Was A Compromise. There Was A Sense That I Could Write My Own Memoirs, And Larry [grobel] Would Help Me Down The Line, Or Maybe Not, Maybe He Was Too Close To Me.