I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Be stronger than your excuses.

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

The harsh reality will be the fear that has always been at the back of your mind coming to play right in front of your eyes

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.