You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

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.

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