The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.