I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

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

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.