I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant, stupid, barbaric thing when I was a child and I've never gotten over that feeling. If you're talking about religion it's one thing; I don't hold Jewish religion with any more seriousness than I would any other.

I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.