Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

The president cannot escape from his office.

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.