It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITYFor every star in the skySomeone is holding his ground.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

There is nothing more flattering than a woman to say 'I'm a fan' or 'I think you're beautiful.' I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.