Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.
You make a film and always hope you’re going make “Citizen Kane” or “The Bicycle Thief.” You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn’t, but it’s out of your control completely.
I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.
If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Paranoia is knowing all the facts.
I am two with nature.
Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.
You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.
Is sex dirty? Only when it’s being done right.
I’ve been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
Writing is great because you never have to meet the test of reality when you’re writing. When I write the film is always a masterpiece at that point. I write and I make up things and budgets don’t mean anything and it’s great.
My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign.