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Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called 'Down with Love', in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.