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

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

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

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

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

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

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.