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.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

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

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.

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.