Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we …

Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic geniu…

When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that …

I feel about Keaton the way an organist thinks of Bach.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artist…