Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.