I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.