I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis.

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting

The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.