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.

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

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.