In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks ... on screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. It isn't easy to do in the theater, but it's twice as hard in film.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down:. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I fell in love with the whole ritual. The lights going down, the curtain going up, telling a story to a large group of people in the dark. It was one of those …

Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

I had recklessly dared to do what I wouldn't dare to do today. The knight performs his morning prayer. When he is ready to pack up his chess set, he turns arou…