We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.
Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.
When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he's complaining about being typecast, I think, 'Hey man, count your blessings.'
Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.
I know of a few actors who have Psoriasis but stay mum about it. I don't respond to those who do. I just smile and move on.
I can't get into talking about why another actor left. It has nothing to do with me.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.
Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
For a two-hour movie on a 20-day shooting schedule, it's O.K. to have an actor who's a pain in the neck.
Production wants a miracle on every movie. They want us to do something new and amazing - but then they give you a 55-year-old actor with sciatica who doesn't want to train.
