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

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

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

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

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.