I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

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.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

You use sex to express every emotion except love.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.