I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

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.

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

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

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

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.