When I’m not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.
The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.
I didn’t know he was dead; I thought he was British.
When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.
What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat – especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.
Everyone wants to get out of living where they’re living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun. But when you think back to earlier times, you only extrapolate the nice things.
Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?
I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.
I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.
I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it’s the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.
Am I my brother’s keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.
But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we’d need valet parking.
When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.
I never start editing a film until it’s completely shot; I don’t edit along the way, ever. When it’s finished I come in here and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we’re finished.
The best an idea gets is when its in your head.
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.
I’d like to make a great movie. I’ve made many movies. I think I’ve made some good movies. I’ve never felt I’ve made a great movie.
I don’t have to ‘freedom-kiss’ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.
The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.