If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

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