Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.