The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

You should never give up your inner self.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.

I like the inspiration of the first take.