When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.