He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.

The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.

Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.

Laughter is a gift everyone should open.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

First know yourself, then know others.

Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.