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Is the cinema more important than life?

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

If you don't think education can ruin film, you don't know the power of education.

If Wagner lived today he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Artform' would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

If stars were absolute and four stars were calibrated at the level of 'The Godfather' or 'Citizen Kane,' there might be years without a single four-star movie.

If a Nazi could open a picture, he'd probably still get work.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

I'm 60 percent virgin and 40 percent whore. I've not sold out that much, and I've made my own mistakes.

I think everybody likes to see the fat girl get the hot guy and win.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else.