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.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.