Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.