I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.