You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.