I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.