Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

People are always misquoting me.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.