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

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

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.

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.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

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