The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have a lot of possibilities. You can edit it in certain ways so that it works, but there's no getting around weaknesses of the script.

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.

I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.