Gluttony is not a secret vice.

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.