Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

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

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

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

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.