American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night.

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

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

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

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