I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.