On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

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

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'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

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.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other