We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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.