Ninety percent of life is just showing up.

I'm a creature of the New York City streets.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.