I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.