I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?