The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.

I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

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.