I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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.