It's only words... unless they're true.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

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.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.