If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.