Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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 can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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 never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn’t know what was ahead of me.
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
I don’t like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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 good product is limited.
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I’ve only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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.
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it’s over and done with.
We will sell no wine before its time.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I – but it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.’
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.