Quotes

An actor must have arrogance, conceit . . . I would never have made it as an actor, but I still have conceit.

If you treat the production of films like the production of shoes, you end up with Hush Puppies.

I may not have come up the hard way, but I have come up the whole way.

[in 2007] I was a writer who became an actor who became a screenwriter who became a director.

I remember saying to this particular savagely disturbed woman [who was protesting his movie The Stepford Wives (1975)], "You've missed the whole point. A, it's fantasy; B, if anybody looks stupid, it's the men. It's not an attack on women, it's an attack on women being exploited by men."

The French cinema at its best remains uniquely French, and our best British films have only succeeded when they remain indigenous. When we try to capture the vital American market, we design a horse and end up with a camel.