A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to work with crowds. I like to get the principals in a crowd. When they do, something else comes off, something special.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.