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

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

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.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

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

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.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.