I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

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

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.