I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’. . . You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making. ’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love. . . My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.
Forward, men, and mix with them.
Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.
[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.
I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of integrity, depth, sensuality and strength have always been my source of inspiration, the reason for what I do and how I got to where I am today. They are all my muse. If my quest, in what I do - to make women look and feel beautiful - reflects even a tiny fraction of my deep-rooted respect for them, and succeeds in celebrating these lives of strength and substance, then I will consider it a job well done.