I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

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.

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.