"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."

"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."

"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."

"I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending."

"The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man."

"It is a enduring truth that when you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality."