I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.

If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.