I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.