From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

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

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.