Man, sometimes God really sucks.
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience. . . hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!
As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
Let them hate me provided they fear me
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.
I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.
The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.