Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.