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

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

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle

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.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.