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

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

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.

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

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

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

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.