Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.