I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

[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.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

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