I know my career is going badly because I’m being quoted correctly.

The only thing in life that’s really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants–whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they’re no good, I put it...

[To actor Strother Martin] You know, as character actors we play all kinds of sex psychos, nuts, creeps, perverts, and weirdos. And we laugh it off, saying what the hell it’s just a character. But...

Now that I think I know what I’m doing, I’m scared. Before this, I just didn’t know any better.

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.