I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.