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"In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed."
"Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger."
"I'm not hard to get along with."
"I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't."
"How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome."
"If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life."
"He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything."
"Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise."
"I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did."
"The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie."
"It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once."
"Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them."
"I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything."
"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."
"I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave."
"It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV."
"Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis."
"What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts."
"You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series."
"I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience."