It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.