I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real love for it, and to really, when I say take it seriously, quote 'seriously', I mean not patronize it. It's a big mistake to patronize it and think it's a third rate medium, because it's not, it's a great art form.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.

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

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

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