My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

I foresee death by culture shock.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.