There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.

Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.