Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.