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.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.