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.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

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

I have an unfortunate personality.

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.