I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.