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One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.