Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.