“There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.”

“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.”

“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.”

“John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.”

“There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.”