Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.