I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

If I hear a film clip, or I happen to see some image from a film - you go to a film festival, and they show some clip of the movies you've been in, most of the time I sit there and go, "Oh God, I should have... should have... that was terrible." But I think that's a natural part of this work, because really, your work is never over. Of course I can leave it alone and walk off the set and never think about it again when it's done. But your work is really ongoing all the time.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.