Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

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.

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.

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.

To put in the effort needed to create the life of your dreams, you first need to develop a burning desire.

TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life’s mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be.

For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.

I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

This is how you play tennis without the net

I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.