Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

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

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