She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.