If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one