My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.