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 artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

I still don't look at movies twice. It's funny, I just feel I got it the first time. With music it's different. People respond so differently to the whole issu…

Earlier generations went to see what was forbidden in life and developed a real excitement about the movies. Today's rating system keeps kids out of the good o…

And for the greatest movie artists where there is a unity of technique and subject, one doesn't need to talk about technique much because it has been subsumed …

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

People call me an over-actor, people who say this might call Van Gogh an over- painter.