I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.