I see the glass half full...but of poison.

The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass.

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

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.