The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

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.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.