There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

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.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

I started at the top and worked my way down.