"If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches."

"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films."

"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."

"Everything makes me nervous - except making films."

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore."

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."

"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them."

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out"