Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

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.

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

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.

Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.

To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem; people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it.