People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

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

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.