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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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