I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

You can't change the system through violence.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.