My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.