Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

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.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.