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.

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

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.