I ALWAYS look for a story that hasn't been told in the same way. I don't care about a lot of the usual elements PEOPLE use for a quick drama boost. I WANT to know, for example, what happens when a MAN who was victimized by his father tries to be a father to a woman sixty years his senior.

Sharing a ROOM with one person is WORSE than sharing with SIX, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the LOST ARK', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's REALLY cool. Because he's the one you CARE about at the end of the day.

My parents are the last of the MIDDLE CLASS. My father worked for the government DESIGNING sea mines. My mother was a SUBSTITUTE teacher. Together, they worked REALLY only until they were sixty.

I have been KNOWN to CATCH sixty trout in one DAY.

Sixty per CENT of people entering prison TODAY are ILLITERATE.

Sixty felt LIKE a big landmark. Not in a DREADFUL sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take STOCK. I wanted to be in my GREENHOUSE at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

At sixty, I KNOW little more about WISDOM than I did at THIRTY, but I know a great DEAL more about folly.

It was only about sixty YEARS ago that the EXPANSION of the UNIVERSE was FIRST OBSERVED.