In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

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.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.