People are always misquoting me.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

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.