"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
- Orson Welles
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In ..."
"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own."
"In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God."
"Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are..."
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
"What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other"