I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.