“Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.”

I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.

To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.

If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.

I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.

The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.

Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.

They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.

Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.

I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.

On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene

Somebody said that I’m a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

And I don’t think Director Comey ever adequately explained why he treated the Clinton investigation one way and the Trump investigation another.

It was an echo of Director Comey’s testimony that Trump showed no curiosity, no interest, no concern over the Russia hack.

By his own admission, was discussing the future of Director Comey in that job, and the president brings up whether he is under investigation, highly unethical, at a minimum, unethical.

The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation.

I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.