Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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

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

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

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.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

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