I like movies about failing.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I loved the writing, I loved the making of it. Because I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one. So the next one was always, "how am I going to do this?" And that thing was sort of always the thing that made me a little chickenshit to go into the next one. The writing of it was great and the making of it was great, but how am I going to release this thing and am I going to find a studio?

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.