I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.