Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

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

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.