Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.