With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

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.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

It took us 2,000 years to find Noah’s Ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?

If you spend a lot of time shopping for athletic clothes, you may want to consider spending less time thinking about high school.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.