I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.