If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
I make my relationships at work.
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
I don't put together cars, I put together people.
I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking. ' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.
If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.