I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely

Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas.

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Communism is the flower of idleness.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Even the greatest bringers of justice will only find salvation in surrneder

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like 'Heathers.'