So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

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

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.