I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
Art is what you can get away with.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.
Art? That's a man's name.
Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
Land really is the best art.
I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
Everyone needs a fantasy.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Checks aren't money.
I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.
I want to die with my blue jeans on.