I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

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

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.