I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.