An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

I diet between meals.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Life is lived in real places, and I shoot in real places.

Winner knows nothing about food.

Moonlight is sculpture

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.