I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.