You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.