I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

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.

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

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.