I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

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

At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.