Your Own Ego Is The Only Trap

If George W. Bush Is Elected President, I'm Leaving For France.

Making A Movie Is Like Chipping Away At A Stone. You Take A Piece Off Here, You Take A Piece Off There And When You're Finished, You Have A Sculpture. You Know That There's Something In There, But You're Not Sure Exactly What It Is Until You Find It.

I Love Fishing. You Put That Line In The Water And You Don't Know What's On The Other End. Your Imagination Is Under There.

If Something Works For You, You Continue To Do It. I Did A Bunch Of Pictures For 20th Century Fox When Alan Ladd Was Over There, But I Set The Budgets So Low That They'd Approve And I'd Deliver The Film. They Would Have No Say In It, Which Is The Kind Of Arrangement I Liked.

People Have Asked Me Throughout The Years Which Directors Have Influenced Me. I Don't Know Their Names, Because I Was Mostly Influenced When I'd See A Film And Think, "man, I Want To Be Sure To Never Do Anything Like That." So I Never Learned Their Names. It Wasn't A Matter Of Copying Or Emulating Somebody I Admired. It Was Getting Rid Of A Lot Of Stuff.