Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.