A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

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

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.