It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.