When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I can levitate birds. No one cares.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?