I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?