The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.