A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

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

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.