You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.