I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.