Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.