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.

I'm a lurid character!

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

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.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.