Any good movie is filled with secrets.

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 have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

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