If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

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

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.