In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

American society is still puritanical.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.

The slow disintegration of the ship is probably something most of us can live with.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.