When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic.