As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.