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 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 don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

The truth is that I am not a frump... I just enjoy being laid back.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.