I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

If you want something, go get it.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.