I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

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.

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

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.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.