The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn….

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the worl….

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others..

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

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

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live..

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to….

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them..

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how c….

We will sell no wine before its time..

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze..

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

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….

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….

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!.

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 hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They ar….

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

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world..

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

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone..