Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

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

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.