If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.

I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.

The more you know the less the better.