Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.