I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.