The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.
There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.
I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.
[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.