Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

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 movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.