What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

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.

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

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

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

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.