Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.