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

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

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.

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

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

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.