I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.