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

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

What' s the matter with me? Why can't I be cool?

You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.