Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.