I feel like Alain Delon, who once said, "It doesn't matter that I'm not a star in America because I'm a huge star in France, I'm a legend in Spain, a…

- James Toback

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

- James Toback

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

- James Toback

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

- James Toback

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

- James Toback

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 an…

- James Toback

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

- James Toback

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

- James Toback

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

- James Toback