One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life.

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

The only reason to be in business is to be great.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

My cinema - the '50s, '60s - is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be bad to show that kind of cinema where we could dream.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

Complexity - limits competition.