You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

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