If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts.

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

You can't handle the truth!

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.