I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

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

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.