I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

The basic and essential human is the woman.

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 look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.