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

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

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.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

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.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.