Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.