The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.