If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

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