The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

... years of insanity have made this guy crazy!

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.