My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.

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

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.