I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.