Acting Is An Escape From The Boring

I Don't Have An Idea For A Play Until After I've Finished Writing It. I Write First, And Come Up With What It's About Later. My Technique Could Be Compared To Having A Large Canvas And Coming In Every Day And Putting A Dot On It Somewhere, And After Several Years - Literally - I Begin To Say, That Reminds Me Of An Elephant, So I Think I'll Make It One.

If My Relation To Each And Every Peasant In Cambodia Is Indeed Exactly What The Principles Of Morality Would Demand It To Be, It's A Miraculous Coincidence, Because It Takes A Lot Of Effort To Behave Correctly In Regard To My Friends, And From One End Of The Year To Another I Never Give Those Peasants A Single Thought.

I Do Things, And Other People Laugh At Them. I Rarely Know What The Joke Is Supposed To Be Or Why They're Laughing.

The Actor's Role In The Community Is Quite Unlike Anyone Else's. Businessmen, For Example, Don't Take Their Clothes Off Or Cry In Front Of Strangers In The Course Of Their Work. Actors Do.

I Think The Whole System Of Education Would Change If I Were In Charge And Had The Ability To Make Changes. I Don't Think I Would Keep Princeton Exactly Being Princeton.