No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I

I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.