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.

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

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.

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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.