Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.