The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don't.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Relationships are really what interest me the most. And I think, in the end, they interest most people the most. Even when you read Tolstoy or something, basically they're about man and woman relationships.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?