I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.