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

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

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.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.