Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

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

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

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.