I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.