My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?