Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

. . . they confuse everything I do with my life.

Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.

I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.