The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

I was always a self-conscious person.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

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