I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

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.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Two people kissing always look like fish.

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.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.