I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.