Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.