A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

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.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.