“I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.”

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.

Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.

It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.

My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.