I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'