Quotes

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Money can't buy poverty.

I like to be by myself, reading, wandering about art galleries. I like solitude, walking.

I do not disbelieve in anything. I start from the premise that everything is true until proved false. Everything is possible.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

To have an effect on the audience, that's the most enjoyable thing I think, you know? To convey a real emotion, to communicate something more than information. To be able to move an audience in some way; either to laughter or proverbially to tears. Days when you feel you've done it, when you've done a good scene, you know it.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

I do have a lot of violence in me, though. It's usually directed against objects. When I'm angry I may throw or kick something. But the last time I kicked something I almost sprained my toe, and when I threw a bottle, it smashed all over me. I really shouldn't do those things.