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

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.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.