When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.