I just wish every film I liked wasn`t either foreign or made in America but with such terrible difficulty. This is the worst period ever for trying to do interesting work. (1996)
Every director implored me, "Jack, can`t you talk a little bit faster?" It was like a hot button for me and I would become hateful. So when Roman started to say it, I began and he said, "Jack, this movie is 100-and-something pages long. To have a movie th...
There`s a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don`t know what in the world I`m going to do. It`s free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
[on Jessica Lange] She is like a delicate fawn, but crossed with a Buick.
