If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.

I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.