The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

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.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.