The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.
A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.
If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.
It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.
I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.
There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.