I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it..

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else..

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers..

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose..

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age..

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without h….

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents..

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, act….

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

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God..

Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years lat….

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

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid..

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of….

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful..

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes..

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies..

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows..

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up..

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's….