A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I'm a lurid character!

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

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.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.