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.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.