Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.