It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!

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

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.

I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.