Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

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.

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.