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

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

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.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

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

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

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