Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this business called religion.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.