Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.