A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Without a rest, test yourself against the best, and then try to find a way to be better.

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

Every woman's man and every man's woman.

I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.'

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.