If You Lived Through The

Children Make You Confront Your Own Childhood. Which I Think Is Common. Suddenly You're Remembering Your Own Parents As Parents, Not To Mention The Fact That You're Confronted By Them As Grandparents. So You Also Have That Terrible Shock, A Mirror Image Of Your Own. You Suddenly Seem To Be So Helpless In The Face Of Young Children. And You Think, "how Did You Ever Bring Up Me?"

It Took Me A Long Time To Film The Plastic Bag, And Then I Had To Get The Cut Of The Scene Right. But If You Find It As Beautiful As The Character Does, Then Suddenly It Becomes A Different Movie, And So Did He As A Character.

The Importance Of Rehearsal Is Maybe You Want To Talk About How The Scene's Going To Be Designed, How It's Going To Be Staged, All Of Those Things. It's All About Preparation, And Deciding What Mutually You Don't Want To Do, Rather Than Necessarily What You Do.

If You Lived Through The Shooting Of Jaws, You Can Live Through Anything.

Actors Get Pigeonholed Very Quickly, Particularly Movie Actors. In The Theater, One Is More Used To Casting People Against Type And Trusting That Their Talent And Skill Will Get Them Through.