I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.