One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.