“I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.”

“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”

“I don't think any word can explain a man's life.”

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”