I started at the top and worked my way down.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.