But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.

That (sex) was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.