I spoke to (director/historian Peter) Bogdanovich, who knew him personally,

I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.