As Far As Acting In Films, There

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.

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 Have To Say From An Actor's Perspective, To Work With A Director Who Has Been An Actor Through Most Of Their Career Is A Pleasure. They Generally Have A Very Deep Understanding Of The Process Of What You're Doing, Of How You Are Building And Exploring The Character.

In The Theater, Actors Are The Essential Element Of The Work. In A Film, It's A Real Collaboration - Not That Theater Isn't, Because It Is - But It's A Collaboration To Such An Extent That You Can Give A Performance In Film That Sometimes You Look At And You Go, "well, That's Not The Performance I Was Trying To Give At All."

If There Are No Other Wonderful Roles That Come My Way, I Have A Quite An Interesting, Dynamic Life.