I don’t know enough to be incompetent.
Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.
The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.
I’ve always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.
We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.
A “Bay Area Bisexual” told me I didn’t quite coincide with either of her desires.
I can’t minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner’s mansion.
Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock – and before a notary – you’ll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we’ll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.
We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you’re stuck with what you’re born with.
If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you’re showing up for.
I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife.
I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?