I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

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.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.