Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

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 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.