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.

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

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