Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

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

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

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.

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?

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

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