And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

True freedom is in striving through adversities to accomplish all noble things that need to be done so that we may be free from any blame in the end!

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.

The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.