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.

My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist.

It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have a lot of possibilities. You can edit it in certain ways so that it works, but there's no getting around weaknesses of the script.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.