I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.