Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.