“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck”

“I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.”

“John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.”

“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck”