I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

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

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.

Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

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.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.