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

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

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

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.

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.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

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