It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Men must know their limitations.

The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

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.

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.