of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.