When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.