A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

Society is at odds with itself.

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.