Arthur Penn Quotes


Arthur Penn

Lee Strasberg ruined an entire generation of actors with that sense memory crap.

There hasn`t been much of a market for what I can do. I`m not into outer space epics or youth pictures.

(1982 comment on Steven Spielberg) The movies have changed: there`s now this wonderful storyteller Spielberg making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I`m known mainly for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. I love his work, but I could never make stuff like that.

(on Hurd Hatfield) America`s least known great actor.