The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

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

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

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