It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

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

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

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

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

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

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

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

A woman with her hair turned up always looks as if she were going some place either to the opera or the shower bath.

We will sell no wine before its time.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

I have no great message to the world.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.