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

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

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.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.