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

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.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

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.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

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.