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

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

I am plagued by doubts.