I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.