I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.