I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?

Always focus on the power of love than the love of power.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.