"The problem with most people is that they're not willing to take risks. They want to play it safe, and that's why they never achieve anything great."

"I'm not interested in making films for critics. I'm interested in making films for audiences, and if they like them, that's all that matters."

"The artist is a man who has to create a new way of looking at the world."

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier s…"

"I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?"