Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.