A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.