I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.