You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

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.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

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

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.