As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!".

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.