Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.

Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the whole thing is tragic. It's an oasis that is very pleasant.

Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.