If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

Everybody has their black moments.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.