Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

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

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it because I enjoy the work.