There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively – not realistically, but subjectively.
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.
You’ll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don’t always win.
I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
American films, it’s a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don’t care about the films. I don’t care if they’re flushed down the toilet after I die.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.
It’s a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.
Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.
I’ve always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don’t interfere with them too much. And then when they’re great, take credit for it in the end.
All I have in my life is my imagination.
Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.