Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.