People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

I acted my heart out.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.