I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.