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.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

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

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.