I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

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

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

Criticism is the essence of creation.