You know you drank too much the night before when you wake up with crop circles in your pubes.
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
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.
At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.
Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.