There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.

You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.