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

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

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.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.