Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

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

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

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.