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.

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

After 60, all of us belong to the weaker sex.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.