And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

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.

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

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 always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.