I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?