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

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.

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.

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 asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

You really only think with one part of your anatomy don't you?

You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?