I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.