[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

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

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.