They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.