I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

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.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.