[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."