I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it.

I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.

I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.