If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

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

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.