My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.