It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.