69 Quotes by Ellen Burstyn

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.