I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

People in uniform always look so great.

Art? That's a man's name.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.