You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.