Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.