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

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.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

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

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.