We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.