Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

I've always been interested in being in other people's movies. I never get any offers.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.