I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there are just magnificent films now, and they're blossoming in the way that the novel did years ago.

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.