When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.