Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

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

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college.

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.