No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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.

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.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.