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.

Don't worry, I know almost exactly what I'm doing.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.

90% of success in life is showing up