When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

Its easy to find others in pitch darkness, but to find your own self in light is hardest task

We are not afraid to be entertainers.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

I never went to drama school.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.