I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.