Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

There was only so much television you could do.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

In the dark, words get lost.

No, I didn't enjoy that in the least. Do it again so I can not enjoy it some more.

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

The high must make the low its base.

I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.