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

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

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

I was always a self-conscious person.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

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.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition