Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.