A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.