The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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.

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

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.