Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

Making a movie is casting a spell.