For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

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