I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.