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

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.