I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst.

Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I never read anything about it, I never think about it.

I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.