A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.