Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

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.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.