[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.

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college.