I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.

I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

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

Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.