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

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.