Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties. . . they live like ants.
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.
My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.
You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.