If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

God is either cruel or incompetent.

Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.