I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything.

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.