I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.