The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

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

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

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

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

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

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