I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Think of something, Oh yes! Think of something. Your life must not be in retardation so think of something! Think of growth for that is the whole essence of life!

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.

Make music that you truly enjoy and it shows.

Im actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.