There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.