I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.