The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.