"Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it."

“frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.”

“I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.”

“I was probably born with some designing abilities.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

“Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it”

“I do feel that there are things you can learn from an artist, but I think you need to be very close to that person, and to know that person fairly well, in order to acquire anything from them. I do have a teacher myself, and I have learned quite a lot from my teacher, but it's not how to make a film. It's more how to approach my life as a director, how to approach and how to lie to a producer.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com

“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.”

“You know, Alundra Blayze, with her looks could star in TV westerns...if she had two more legs.”

“Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.”