The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

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.

Relationships should be like flat pack come with easy to follow instructions so that you knew which bits fitted where

Always protect your heart with unconditional self-love, faith and courage.

Pushing fifty is exercise enough.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

Rob Mullins is headed for status as an international celebrity.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.