What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

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

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

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

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

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

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

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

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

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

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

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