I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

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

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

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

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.