People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.

Subjectivity is objective.

When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.