Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.