Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.