Diamonds cut diamonds.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

I'm not unhappy, " he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

What never happened will never change."(from "Oh, Leonardo")

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Love can make you immortal

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.