It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'