Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.