Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

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

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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

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 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.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.