I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

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.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Alas, between the “shouldn’t” and the “shouldn’t have”—that is precisely where life happens.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

The absence of disease is not health.

I wasn't always this introverted.