Jean Renoir

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.