Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

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

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

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.