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

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

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

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

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.

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?