Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.