When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great that was and wouldn't it be great to see a movie like that. They did some cheap serials, but they're not the same as today. But I think younger audiences would like to see a real hero also.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

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Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.