"The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films."

“With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment”

“Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.”

“I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.”

“A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“War is just one more big government program.”

“I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.”