The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.