I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don’t mean a conceit of the producer.
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
If I don’t like somebody’s looks, I don’t like them.
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
I don’t take art as seriously as politics.
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else’s war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life.
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them.