If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

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.

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

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