Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.