I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

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

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

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

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

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