Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

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

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

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.

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.