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

What is it about death that bothers me? Probably the hours.

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.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.