My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

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