Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I have an unfortunate personality.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.