Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Children always turn to the light.