There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

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.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.