I have no great message to the world.
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
One shouldn’t ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don’t mean a conceit of the producer.
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
If I don’t like somebody’s looks, I don’t like them.
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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.
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
I don’t take art as seriously as politics.
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else’s war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.