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

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

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

The best education in film is to make one