There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

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.

Men must know their limitations.

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

None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

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.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.