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

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

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

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.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

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

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.