James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.