James Toback Quotes

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

I feel like Alain Delon, who once said, "It doesn't matter that I'm not a star in America because I'm a huge star in France, I'm a legend in Spain, and I'm a god in Japan.