It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

I hope you're getting this down.

I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.