The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

I live for myself and answer to nobody

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.