It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.