“Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.”

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

The path is the destination, and the destination is hidden in the path, as the Creator is hidden in creation.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

My emotions allow me to create that is something only I dictate.

If your work is about creating something that you truly care for, there is no need to balance work and life – life is work and work is life.

The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

We cannot fix yesterday, but we can create tomorrow.