There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

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

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

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.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

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

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.