Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

I've always been interested in being in other people's movies. I never get any offers.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.