in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.