“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.”

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.

I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I have an unfortunate personality.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I’ve got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.