That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
I read the Bible every day.
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
What we want is never simple.
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.