I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.

I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)

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

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.