All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.