Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can