If I Couldn't Read, I Couldn't Live.

Your Camera Is The Best Critic There Is. Critics Never See As Much As The Camera Does. It Is More Perceptive Than The Human Eye.

These Happy Endings All Express The Weak And Sly Promise That The World Is Not Rotten And Out Of Joint But Meaningful And Ultimately In Excellent Condition.

This Is The Dialectic - There Is A Very Short Distance Between High Art And Trash, And Trash That Contains An Element Of Craziness Is By This Very Quality Nearer To Art.

I Was Making Films About American Society, And It Is True That I Never Felt At Home There, Except Perhaps When My Wife And I Lived On A Farm In The San Fernando Valley. But I Always Wanted My Characters To Be More Than Cyphers For The Failings Of Their World. And I Never Had To Look Too Hard To Find A Part Of Myself In Them

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.