Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

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

. . . they confuse everything I do with my life.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.