"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."

"It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend.

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."

"I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie."

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."