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

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.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

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 dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.