I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

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

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

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

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

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

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