I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.