Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

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.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

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

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.