If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

I diet between meals.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Life is lived in real places, and I shoot in real places.

Winner knows nothing about food.

One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.

If we must encounter each other, let’s do it the old way—in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us.

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

I have a really sweet daughter. She wants to hug all the other kids. I didn't teach her to be sweet. It has nothing to do with me.

I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.