I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

You use sex to express every emotion except love.

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.