My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.