You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.