Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

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.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

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

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.