The Jesuits use this kind of training, or, let's say it this way: The Jesuit General imposes this kind of structure; he encourages the young men to specialize. Because getting ten of them together, you have the best of everything. But this does not mean that this system is good for the Jesuits all over. They're all available to the cause.

I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.