You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.