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.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]