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 am an only child. I have one sister.

I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

Take the money and run.