The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I was always a self-conscious person.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.