As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

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.

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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.'

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.