“I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.”

American actor

Martin James Landau was an American actor of the late 20th century. His career began in the late 1950s, and he became known for work in film and television. He had an early supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest in 1959. His wider breakthrough came through leading roles in Mission: Impossible from 1966 to 1969 and Space: 1999 from 1975 to 1977.