Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

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.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

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

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.