I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk.
The camera is the slave to the actor.
Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.
I felt so liberated when I first saw this play, because for me this is the gateway to contemplation, or this is the gateway to love, or this is the gateway to faith, not sitting and reading a book by an isolated monk, god bless him. This is.
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat. , Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil. ]