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I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.