How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.