The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.