When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.