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

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

In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and ….

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre..

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — y….

Gluttony is not a secret vice..

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..

Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine ….

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't ….

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go..

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallio….

I never said I was a genius..

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with..

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money..

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke..

I don't think any word can explain a man's life..

Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great wher….

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God..

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford..

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts..

I don't take art as seriously as politics..