Actors are boring when they are not working. It`s a natural condition, because they don`t have anything to do. They just lay around, and that`s why so many of them get drunk. They really get to be boring people. My wife will attest to that.

[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam is, I think, a great filmmaker. Of course, he`s his own worst enemy. Sam is an unusual human being, and he needs to be treated like an unusual human being. He can create an atmosphere, whether he`s drunk, sober, pissed off or in a rage, or whatever. I mean, for about three or four hours a day, he`s a fucking genius. But the rest of the time he spends wallowing in a kind of emotional reaction to either good or bad memories.