I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

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

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.

Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.