My Advice To Young Filmmakers

The Best Way To Make Friends With An Audience Is To Make Them Laugh. You Don't Get People To Laugh Unless They Surrender - Surrender Their Defenses, Their Hostilities. And Once You Make An Audience Laugh, They're With You. And They Listen To You If You've Got Something To Say. I Have A Theory That If You Can Make Them Laugh, They're Your Friends.

Things Own You. That's The Trouble With Capitalism. Things Own You. With Communism And Fascism - Ideas Own You. One Idea And You Can't Have Any Other.

Any Kind Of Dictatorship, I'm Uneasy. I Just Don't Like Dictators. I Don't Like Crowds. I Don't Like Hordes, And I Don't Like Other People Telling Me What To Do. This Is Probably A Reaction Against People Telling Me What To Do When I Was A Kid. I Won't Join Any Group, Espouse A Cause Against Some Other People.

Friend, You Are A Divine Mingle-mangle Of Guts And Stardust. So Hang In There! If Doors Opened For Me, They Can Open For Anyone.

Most Ideologies Of The World Are Not For The Individual. They're Against The Individual. Communism, Fascism. Any Kind Of An Ism - Almost - They're Against The Individual.