I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.