Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

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.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.