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.

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.

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

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

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.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.