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

I write and film history; I don't make it.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

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

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.