A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

The best director is the one you don't see.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.