I’ve made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Man’s indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer.

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick.

You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who’s the real you? And who’s the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion.

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That’s one of the town’s charms.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don’t care.

By instinct I’m an adventurer; by choice I’d like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I’m an actor.

Someone, I don’t know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.