If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.