When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.

I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

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

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.

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

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.