New York has always embraced me.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow.