Criticism is the essence of creation.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.