If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.