Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.