It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.