My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.
I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.
I like arts and crafts.
I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.
I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.
I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.
I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.
I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
The truth is that I am not a frump... I just enjoy being laid back.
I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!
I'm not the most positive person.
We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
I don't startle easily.
I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?
Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.
Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.
