The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

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.

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

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.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.