There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.