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

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth a….

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour….

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable..

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can..

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life..

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

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable..

I would rather be on the set than doing anything..

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Rena….

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it f….

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own..

We will sell no wine before its time..

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in sena….

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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