Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

Every fear hides a wish.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.