My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.

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

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.

My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

I am two with nature.