I was called recently in some article "Hollywood's Oldest Established Rebel." So I'm sort of working from the inside now, with still a little bit of a rebellious spirit.

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

I am a man ruled by music- I live, die, fight and survive for it.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.

True repentance does not permit repetition.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.