I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

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.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

I could not ask for more than the love you give me... Cause it's all I've waited for... and I could not ask for more.

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.