My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

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.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.