There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

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.

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