I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

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

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

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

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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.