I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

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

I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.