A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die..

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of..

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a ….

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world..

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, wh….

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin..

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I….

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't i….

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm..

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..

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing..

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful..

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of pos….

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention..

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas..

There were centuries when civilization had no theater..

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore..

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disa….

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions..

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really….