The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff... I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.

I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK? It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday

My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.