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

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

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

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.