Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.