Warren Beatty

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce.

By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything.

Art is truth.

I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

I don't want to be mushy about it, but having four kids is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, and each kid is, to me, more fascinating than any five movies.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.

I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.