The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

Fargo is one of my favorite movies.