You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.