I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.