I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.