That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.

Today is the best day with great possibilities and opportunities, so change yourself to start a new beginning.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

I put the most pressure on myself. I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.