These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went on. My friends were more preoccupied with social issues - issues such as abortion, racial discrimination, and Communism - and those issues just never caught my interest. Of course they mattered to me as a citizen to some degree...but they never really caught my attention artistically.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

Subjectivity is objective.