Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.

I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

Please Tommy. Please.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.