If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

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 like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.