(Oct. 2007) Melodrama is a much maligned genre. And I hope we can bring it back into fashion. I always think of melodrama as the thing we are all capable of that`s swept under the rug.

[on Paul Newman] Paul`s always been one of the best actors we`ve got, but there was that great stone face and those gorgeous blue eyes and a lot of people assumed he couldn`t act. He got relegated to leading man parts and he wasn`t using a quarter of his talent. Now he`s able to cut loose and do sensational work.

[on Christopher Reeve] What seemed such a nice, simple, artless performance in "Superman" was the finest kind of acting. Reeve`s timing -- and humor -- has to be just about perfect to make the character come off.

There`s no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

If a director comes in from California and doesn`t know the city at all, he picks the Empire State Building and all the postcard shots, and that, of course, isn`t the city.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

[on Tab Hunter] Also talented, but primarily a character actor, yet always used as a leading man because he`s so pretty. I`ve seen him do character parts in which he`s really great. But as a leading man he tightens up. Mostly he turned to character work in American television when his Hollywood career started going sour. Then he played the roles of psychotic killers and so forth, and his talent became clear.

[from 1973] All I want to do is get better and quantity can help me to solve my problems. I`m thrilled by the idea that I`m not even sure how many films I`ve done. If I don`t have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don`t have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

[on Ralph Richardson] There`s no secret about the fact that Ralph is terrified of the camera. But at the same time he is unquestionably a great actor. Yet he looks to a director, too.

[Oct 2007] Anything you can do with film, I can do with HD.