I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.

I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.