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.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

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

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.