Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

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

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.