Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

I will not call myself a perfectionist, but I love to present things with my best effort.

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.