My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.

I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.

Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.

Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.