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

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.

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.

As long as you are alive and in good health, everything else will come with time through hard work.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them