When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

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.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.