Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.
We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.
Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn't want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.
I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.
Every artists wants to be applauded
I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food.
Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.
I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.
I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.
If you want to know all about the sea. . . and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.
What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.