Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.