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“Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”
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“My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.”
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“I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.”
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“There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.”
Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 297, 2010.
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“Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.”
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“Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.”
Source : Jack Foster, Larry Corby (2007). “How to Get Ideas”, p.108, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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“Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.”