With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

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.

Go ahead, make my day.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.