There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it I struggle more with drama because I started out in comedy.

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.

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

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.