The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

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

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.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.

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.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.