You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul!

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

There’s a lot that is good in your life-don’t take it for granted. Don’t get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.