I've Had So Many People

For Me, The Motivation Really Was To Work With Al Pacino. To Me, That Seemed Like An Incredible Opportunity, Just A Learning Opportunity Because I Thought So Highly Of Him.

I Was Quite Eager To Work, Anytime Somebody Was Offering Me A Job, If I Liked The Role. Because I Was Always Very Discriminating From The Very Beginning, In The Sense That I Had Absolutely No Problem Saying No To Jobs When They Came Along If Somehow They Didn't Fit Into My Universe - Whatever That Was.

I Was Always Drawn Toward The Actor's Studio. I Studied At The Lee Strasberg Institute When I First Came To New York. One Of My Favorite Teachers Was One Of Al [pachino]'s Teachers, A Guy Named Charlie Laughton, Who Was Just A Wonderful, Wonderful Man.

The Secrecy Thing Has Gotten To Be More And More Prevalent In Films, And Maybe That's Good. It's Nice To Go See A Film And Not Know Anything About It. Sometimes I Feel Like We Know Too Much About Films.

I've Had So Many People Just Come Up To Me And Say, 'when You Came Up On The Screen, Everybody In The Theater Applauded.' It's Just So Sweet, Really.