When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.