I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

This town needs an enema!

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.