Anyone who gets a raw deal in a film studio is no more deserving of
pity than someone who gets beaten up in a brothel. A gentleman has no
business in either place.
When my friends and I were young in Hungary, we all dreamed of being
poets. And what did we become? We became politicians and advertisement
men and film producers.
[on Charles Laughton] With him acting was an act of childbirth. What he needed was not so much a director as a midwife.
The art of filmmaking is to come to the brink of bankruptcy and stare it in the face.
It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent, too.