"I don't like to talk about my films. I like to make them."

"I hate war, but I also hate the hypocrisy of those who preach peace while preparing for war."

"I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it … I found poverty neither attractive nor edifying. It taught me nothing but a distortion of values, an over-rati…"

"I have no ambitions to be a great man. I just want to be a good man."

"I am a comedian, and my job is to make people laugh, even if it's at my own expense."