A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

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.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.