"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed…"

"Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, everyone's afraid of something."

"I like stories where the hero is in jeopardy all the time, and I like to put him there."