The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.