I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.