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• You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
• The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
• I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
• I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
• I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty…
• Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
• The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private…
• If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
• Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
• The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
• I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

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