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

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

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

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.