This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.