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.

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

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

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