Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.