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.

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

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.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

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

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.