Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.