Wonder is our need today, not information.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

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

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

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.

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

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.