The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

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