I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.