What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

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.

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.

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

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.