Quotes

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Pauline Kael reviews The Day of the Locust: 'There's nothing specifically wrong with Donald Sutherland's performance. It's just awful'. That was the most destructive, stupid piece of criticism I've ever received. I stopped reading reviews after that.

I was up for a great part but they told me: 'Sorry, you're the best actor but this part calls for a guy-next-door type. You don't look as if you've ever lived next door to anyone'.

When you're working for a good director, you become subjective and submissive. You become his concubine. All that you're seeking is his pleasure.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house I was living in. From what I understood, he was having an affair with the wife of the man he was designing the house for. That man was very tall. So Wright, short and vain, designs the house in such a way that a tall person couldn't live in it without severe cranial damage. I hit my head * all * the time.