I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.