None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.

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

I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman or Doug McGrath into a room and not be alone for the writing of the thing; to have the pleasure of taking walks and get lunch together; its sort of a fun process and then I do it and then I get back on my own for a while until I feel the need to do it again.

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?

My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign

I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.