If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff... I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.