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

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

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

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

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