Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai

Im not bitter about Hollywoods treatment of me, but of its treatment of Griffith, von Sternberg, Buster Keaton, and a hundred others

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong

I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time