Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.