Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

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.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

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