I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.