Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Questions about acting are difficult.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.