In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.