I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

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

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

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

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