I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.