The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.

I am plagued by doubts.

I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, [...] which is cold comfort.

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.