Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

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

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.

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

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.