[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.