I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.