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

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.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

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

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

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