Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.