There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.