15 Quotes by James Toback

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.