It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.

I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. ­