There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.