My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

Everybody who works under any system feels confined. It is a natural reaction. You are confined to a certain extent. You are confined if you work in a bank, if you paint. You are confined, in a sense, to your art - the enclosure of your mind. Everybody should break out.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.