The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

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.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

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.