I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Commitment is the only currency that keeps a family together.

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.

One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it.

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear