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.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.