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

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

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

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.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.