Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I’ve been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I’ve had.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
My mother never had time for me. When you’re the middle child in a family of five million, you don’t get any attention.
I’m in show business. I’m not like a poor factory worker who’d been laid off.
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you’ve left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It’s the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that’s crippling you when you’re trying to write.
When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it’s fantastic.
In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.
I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
People think I’m an artist because my films lose money.
I didn’t go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
I hate reality but it’s still the best place to get a good steak.