Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.