Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

I have an unfortunate personality.