The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.

Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks